Co-presidents Maggie Clark and Joan Vierra called the Zoom meeting to order at 9:30 and welcomed the 35 members present. Many new members continue to join our group and they were asked to say hello and say a few words about their fiber interest. We briefly met Susan Penney, Ellen Terry, Kathleen Carter and Bambi Moise.

Roberta Valdez, a member of SCTAG and representing Pajaro Valley Arts, announced an invitational textile show at the gallery in Watsonville opening August 23rd. The theme is Many Threads, One Cloth. If you are interested in submitting work for this show, please contact Roberta. They would like to see many types of textiles and hope there would be a good number from our guild. More information is available on the guild website as well as from Roberta Valdez at craftidiva@gmail.com

Marilou Moschetti and Shar Brunston – CNCH Tableau ( for a description and offerings at this year’s conference, go to (www.cnch.org) May 19-22, 2022

By our February meeting, we need to have a list of objects for this. Please contact Marilou to enter your items. Marilou felting07@gmail.com

Rehearsal on Friday, May 20, 1:00-2:00PM

Time limit per guild: 2 minutes on stage, 3 minutes posing, exit

Ideas so far: clothesline 20’ long

Need to know: number of people on stage modeling and holding clothesline, number of items to be hung on clothesline, narration for the items on display, unknowns, music,

Suggestions???

By the February 9th meeting, we hope to be in-person at the Aptos Village Park Clubhouse. The annual Play Day will be an opportunity to work on fibery projects of your own while sharing your process with others informally. Interest groups will have their first group meetings. Mentors for each of the five most-requested interest groups will contact those that have signed up since November 1st. If you have not signed up for one or more of these, you may do so at any time by going to the Contact Us link on the guild website.

So far we have:

Basketry, LeAnn Bjelle

Weaving (floor loom), Joan Vierra

Natural Dyeing, Peg McCullough

Tapestry II, Maggie Clark

Spinning, Kris Nardello

SOS Our guild is asking for a Zoom-savvy member to become our Zoom Master. We will purchase our own Zoom license and we need someone to handle this for our virtual meetings and possibly interest group gatherings. It’s a great opportunity to meet our presenters before hand and help them to get in and out of Share Screen, read them the questions from chat, etc.

Our current treasurer, the wonderful Rachelle Weiss, will be stepping down from her very important position in June, and she would love to train another guild member to take over before then. This will make the job so much easier for the in-coming person, so please step up! We need your help.

Janette Gross introduced our speaker, tapestry weaver Alex Friedman. Alex told of her life as an artist having lived in a variety of cities around the United States and England while also being a wife and raising children. She recounted stories of helping create tapestries for Pan Am  airplanes in her early life to weaving private commissions later on, the evolution of a “signature” on her tapestries, and studying with Archie Brennan who told her that “…tapestries should be about textiles.” She claimed that tapestry weavers love problem solving and developing new design elements. Exploring shapes, colors, materials and even manipulating warp in her “flips” series demonstrates her pursuit of new facets of tapestry weaving. Some of her most recent weavings are of aerial maps with abstracted grid lines, waves and foam flowing on to the shore and the dynamic atmospheric rivers that move over California from the Pacific. Plies of cordage, the Covid pandemic and the architectural features of buildings are also favorite themes of her work.

Q & A session following her slide show

– uses butterflies of yarn, not bobbins

• puts all the yarns for a piece on a table before starting to weave

• uses Paternayon yarn- 3 strands to a butterfly, usually 8 epi for warp

• rarely dyes her own yarn

• keeps a notebook of ideas

• next show California Pacific Medical Center, 2100 Webster St, SF

• welcomes visitors to her studio in Sausalito

AQSFriedman@gmail.com alexfriedmantapestry.com

Alex also wanted to remind us of the next TAC (Textile Arts Council) event on Saturday, January 22 when Helena Hernmarck will be the presenter speaking on “Wool and Color.” 10:00AM, $10 general admission, tickets available on line for this Zoom event. Go to the TAC website and it’s under Lectures and Events.

Please join us for the Play Day on February 9th, 9:30AM.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:55AM.

Respectfully submitted, Kris Nardello, Secretary